crimespeak

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noun

The jargon associated with crime and criminals.

“They say Mr Luckhart was the shooter,” the girl tells her, confident in the lingua franca of modern crimespeak, “so the cops had to take him out.”

Synonym of wrongspeak.

“They say Mr Luckhart was the shooter,” the girl tells her, confident in the lingua franca of modern crimespeak, “so the cops had to take him out.”

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i Register

In some senses, crimespeak is marked as informal. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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